As part of the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support for individual Entrepreneurship initiatives", supervised by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the REC have developed a mechanism for providing integrated services to support export-oriented SMEs.
As part of the new approach to supporting the export of SMEs, each exporter will be offered comprehensive services - "boxed solutions" designed to meet typical business situations at each stage of the export cycle. Previously, before the Order came into force, the exporter could be provided with only one service in accordance with his request, which often could not lead to the conclusion of an export contract and did not give the desired effect. In addition to the basic services that solve the typical tasks of exporters, the "box" also includes additional services, the use of which is discussed with the company depending on the specifics of a particular industry and the nuances of supply.
Tatyana Ilyushnikova, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, stressed that "export support centers are a key link in the export development system for small and medium-sized businesses within the framework of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support for individual entrepreneurial initiative" and the new mechanism for the provision of CPE services, which consists in providing comprehensive services, will ensure the highest quality and the effective development of export activities of SMEs, as well as will contribute to increasing the share of non-primary non-energy exports of SMEs in the country's exports."
SMEs can receive comprehensive services to support an export contract, search for a foreign buyer, organize participation in exhibitions, international business missions, acceleration programs, and an equally important service for placing SME products on electronic trading platforms.
"By developing a regional export support network, we are primarily interested in creating a favorable ecosystem in each of the regions. As part of the development of this document, we held a number of strategic sessions with the participation of heads of Export Support Centers and representatives of regional authorities, as a result of which we received very detailed feedback from the regions. The new Order of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development is a unified approach aimed at improving the institutional export environment in the regions. Qualitative changes in the regulatory framework of the CPE will allow representatives of the segment of small and medium-sized businesses to receive services in a more convenient format," said Natalia Minaeva, Director of the Regional Project at REC JSC.